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Open Addressing

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All elements are stored in the hash table (no pointers).
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If a hash slot is full, then probe other slots using the probe sequence until a slot is found or no slot can be found (overflow).
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The hash function now becomes h(k,i), where i ranges over {0,1,..,m-1}.
h(k,i) returns the ith probe in the probe sequence.
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The entire probe sequence must be a permutation of {0,1,..,m-1}.


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